INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
1
In this unique volume, the International Institute for Research
and Education’s current and previous co-directors explain its origins,
activity and challenges.
On 11 June 1981, the Institut international...
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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
1
In this unique volume, the International Institute for Research
and Education’s current and previous co-directors explain its origins,
activity and challenges.
On 11 June 1981, the Institut international de recherches et de
formation pour promouvoir le socialisme scientifique et democratique (later shortened to the more versatile Institut International de
Recherche et de Formation) was founded by a Belgian royal charter.
It
fulfilled a plan by Jacob Moneta, the editor-in-chief of the important
big German trade union journal Metall, the Belgian Marxist economist Ernest Mandel, the Swiss economist Charles-André Udry and
the philologist Jan Philipp Reemtsma.
The following summer, the
IIRE opened in Amsterdam as a centre for education and research in
the service of progressive activists, linked closely to the Marxist and
workers’ movements worldwide.
After three decades, hundreds of successful seminars, schools
and lectures have take
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